Handbag



Ma 12, 1936. C Km 2,040,141

\ HANDBAG Filed Feb. 15, 1936 Patented May 12, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2 Claims.

This invention relates to handbags, and its object is to provide a convenient and economically constructed means whereby the bag may be clamped. to the frame and held in frictional engagement therewith.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is an elevation of a handbag frame embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is an elevation of an inlay in inverted position.

Figs. 3 and 4 are elevations of inlays to be used in the sides of the frame, each being shown in reversed position.

Fig. 5 is an elevation of the frame with said inlays in position.

Fig. 6 is a transverse section taken on the line 6-6 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 7 is a transverse section taken on the line '!--1 of Fig. 2, the same being shown inverted.

Fig. 8 is a transverse section taken on the gen eral plane indicated by the line 9-9 of Fig. 5 and showing the frame and inlay before the edge of the bag has been inserted.

Fig. 9 is a transverse section taken on the line 9-9 of Fig. 5. 25 Fig. 10 is a transverse section taken on the general plane indicated by the line 9-9 of Fig. 5 and showing both frame members after the handbag has been completed.

In the particular drawing selected for more fully disclosing my invention, is one of a pair of frame members adapted to be hingedly connected by the hinges 2| and each having a wall 22 provided at one edge with an outwardly directed flange 23. The other edges of the top and side portions of each frame member are provided with a plurality of tongues 24 herein shown as two in number. As indicated at 24', said tongues are integral with the frame. Preferably each tongue has a reduced portion 25 and a shoulder 26 near its point of juncture with the wall of the frame.

Co-operating with the top and side portions of the frame member are inlays 21 consisting of two portions, one being reversely bent upon the other to form a V-shaped channel wherein the edges of the bag are held in frictional engagement. Portions of the inner wall of each inlay are struck out as indicated at 28 to form a socket 29 for receiving the tongues aforesaid which are directed upwardly toward but terminate short of the flange of the frame member. Where the tongues are shouldered, as shown in the present instance, the edge 30 of the inlay, which is nearer the bottom of said V-shaped channel, rests upon said shoulder to properly place the inlay with respect to the flange 23.

In assembling the hand-bag the edge of the bag 3| is first inserted in the channel of the inlay and the latter firmly clamped thereto. The inlays are then attached to the frame by the tongues 24 which, as above pointed out, pass through the sockets 29, as indicated in Fig. 8. The frame is then placed in a suitable press and the elements thereof compressed together, as indicated in Figs. 9 and 10, whereby the edges of the bag are firmly held in frictional engagement with the inlay and the latter securely clamped to the frame member.

Having thus described an illustrative embodiment of my invention without, however, limiting the same thereto, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A handbag comprising in combination a frame member having a wall provided at one edge with an outwardly directed flange and at the other with a plurality of spaced tongues integral with said wall and directed toward said flange, and a channeled inlay having sockets offset from its inner wall and spaced to receive said tongues, respectively.

2. A handbag comprising in combination a frame member having a wall provided at one edge with an outwardly directed flange and at the other with a plurality of spaced tongues integral with said wall and directed toward said flange, each said tongue having a reduced end portion and a shoulder near its point of juncture with said wall, and a channeled inlay having sockets offset from its inner wall and spaced to receive said reduced end portions of said tongues, respectively.

CLIFFORD G. KING. 

